Saucy server images do not boot for 20130528

[Paul Larson]

On server boot, I see the initial screen asking to select language and other options. Then when I select the option to install, I get nothing but a black screen. Taking "quiet" out of the boot args has no effect on this.

The image from 20130527 boots fine, but 20130528 does not.
This happens on both i386 and amd64.
I've not tested on hardware yet, but I've tried this on both virtualbox and kvm, which both fail to boot.

The changes since yesterday's image are few:
-gcc-4.8-base:amd64 4.8.0-7ubuntu1
+gcc-4.8-base:amd64 4.8.0-8ubuntu1
-libgcc1:amd64 1:4.8.0-7ubuntu1
+libgcc1:amd64 1:4.8.0-8ubuntu1
-libplymouth2:amd64 0.8.8-0ubuntu6.1
+libplymouth2:amd64 0.8.8-0ubuntu7
-libstdc++6:amd64 4.8.0-7ubuntu1
+libstdc++6:amd64 4.8.0-8ubuntu1
-plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu6.1
+plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu7

Of those, plymouth seems to be the most likely culprit.

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

This is also reproducible on hardware

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

plymouth cannot possibly be responsible; it doesn't run in server image startup.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The more relevant change is that we had a new debian-installer build, rolling up several changes elsewhere. This doesn't really help narrow things down much, though, so I'm just going to investigate directly.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This sounds like the start-udev bugs that were fixed in

systemd (202-0ubuntu9) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/udev-udeb.links: Add /sbin/udevadm backwards compat symlink, too.
  * debian/extra/udev.startup: Mount devtmpfs, not tmpfs with the manual
    make_extra_nodes().
  * debian/extra/udev.startup: Mount devpts.
  * debian/extra/udev.startup: Drop obsolete "scsi_wait_scan" modprobing.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 28 May 2013 17:29:08 +0200

Can we please re-test with that version? Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

> Can we please re-test with that version? Thanks!

For the record, this needs another d-i rebuild to actually get picked up.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've confirmed that 20101020ubuntu238 works.

debian-installer (20101020ubuntu238) saucy; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild against new udev.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 28 May 2013 19:54:20 +0100